Review:
Shrewdly plotted and elegantly written...a narrative that is alert to life's unknowable randomness.
Superb...a quite exceptional novel...Beginning as a straightforward locked-room mystery, it develops into a delicate meditation on grief and revenge...Dymott has contrived a plot that is deeply satisfying.
Every Contact Leaves A Trace, a debut novel by Elanor Dymott, hooked me from the first few chapters, and swept me along on an amazing ride.... And it makes each of us question, what is love? Every contact does leave a trace, and it really... creates something new and unpredictable.
Every Contact Leaves A Trace hooked me from the first few chapters, and swept me along on an amazing ride...It makes each of us question, what is love? Every contact does leave a trace, and it really...creates something new and unpredictable.
Moody, atmospheric...Dymott's beautiful prose and the elegant, measured nature of the plot should satisfy readers who hang in until the end. Recommended for those who enjoy literary thrillers and mystery novels, and fans of authors such as Donna Tartt and Ian McEwan.
There are many things to savor about Elanor Dymott's debut suspense novel, Every Contact Leaves a Trace--among them, its baroque narrative structure and its clever manipulation of the stock, husband-who-hasn't-got-a-clue character... it also offers up some of the same intricate storytelling satisfactions--and marital nightmares--as Gone Girl. --Maureen Corrigan
Part meditation on grief and memory, part literary thriller, Dymott s complex debut is thoughtful and rich in mood Readers of Gone Girl and The Secret History will be drawn in by its moody contemplation. "
Superb a quite exceptional novel Beginning as a straightforward locked-room mystery, it develops into a delicate meditation on grief and revenge Dymott has contrived a plot that is deeply satisfying."
Moody, atmospheric Dymott's beautiful prose and the elegant, measured nature of the plot should satisfy readers who hang in until the end. Recommended for those who enjoy literary thrillers and mystery novels, and fans of authors such as Donna Tartt and Ian McEwan."
Elanor Dymott s gorgeous debut novel is a murder mystery that's also a brilliant meditation on love and memory and loss. Like the Robert Browning poems her characters read at Oxford, the book is spooky, lovesick, dark, andlush, its narrator circling obsessively back on the death at its heart.--Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It"
Book Description:
Part love story, part murder-mystery, this is an extraordinary literary thriller, guaranteed to make your heart beat faster and faster...
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